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Rave Reviews But No Bikinis: Checking In On 25hours Bikini Berlinhttp://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2014/11/25/74447/047
<![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/25hrsberlinhammock.jpg" class="top"> <p>Nine months after its opening date, and three months since its <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2014/8/5/103333/7861/hotels/Is_There_Ever_A_Time_When_A_Peekaboo_Bathroom_Is_Ok%3F">visible bathrooms caused a storm</a>, the results are in for <a href="http://www.25hours-hotels.com/en/bikini/home/home.html"><b>25hours Hotel Bikini Berlin</b></a>. And you know what? They are pretty astonishing. <p>Idly surfing TripAdvisor the other day, we noticed that 25hours is now <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g187323-d5588572-Reviews-25hours_Hotel_Bikini_Berlin-Berlin.html">number 20 of 663 hotels in Berlin</a>. Slash off a few negative reviews for those bathrooms and the fact not everyone who books a trendy hotel does so knowing it&#146;s a trendy hotel, and that is actually quite astonishingly good. <p>&#147;Jungle rooms&#148; are the obvious winning rooms &#150; these overlook the elephant enclosure and ape house in the Berlin zoo below (&#147;Jungle M&#148; category rooms even have a hammockjuliab2014-11-25T08:33:06-05:00Berlin's Renovated Hotel Zoo Is As Fashionable Now As In Its Heydayhttp://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2014/11/13/82134/670
<![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/zoodvf.jpg" class="top"> <p>It&#146;s still got it. <p>Back in the day, the <a href="http://www.hotelzoo.de/"><B>Hotel Zoo</b></a>, which opened in Berlin in 1911, hosted the likes of Sophia Loren and Grace Kelly. Now that it&#146;s finally reopened after a two-year renovation, it&#146;s already pulling the celebs back in &#150; in the shape of Diane Von Furstenberg, who&#146;s contributed to the furnishings, and Maison Martin Margiela, which has provided towels and nightshirts. Yes, nightshirts. The glamor! <p>In fact, glamor is a running theme here &#150; the design of the hotel was inspired by the &#147;film festivals and galas of the past&#148; (the hotel was once the place for VIPs at the Berlin Film Festival), as well as &#147;the clash of history and modernjuliab2014-11-13T08:21:34-05:00How To Commemorate 25 Years Since The Berlin Wall At The Hotel De Romehttp://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2014/9/26/34343/7977
<![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/hotelderome.jpg" class="top"> <p>It doesn&#146;t feel this long, and yet it feels like forever &#150; <strong>the Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago in November</strong>, and the city is marking the anniversary on November 9 by lining up 8000 helium balloons along a 7.5 mile stretch of the old border between east and west. <p>Obviously no hotel wants to be seen to be taking advantage of an event of such historical importance, but the <a href="https://www.roccofortehotels.com/hotels-and-resorts/hotel-de-rome/"><b>Hotel de Rome</b></a> has drawn up a pretty sober package, valid November 7-10. <p>The <b>Fall of the Berlin Wall</b> package includes three nights accommodation and breakfast, a three hour private guided tour of Wall-related sites, a trip to the <a href="http://www.visitberlin.de/en/spot/asisi-panorama-the-wall-0">Asisi Panorama</a> near Checkpoint Charlie, andjuliab2014-09-26T08:57:48-05:00Berlin's Hotel Zoo to Re-open This October After a 2 Year Redohttp://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2014/8/4/14135/34077

Theres nothing like a little Hollywood style hype to draw some attention to the re-opening of a hotel. For two years, the Hotel Zoo in Berlin has been under serious wraps during its renovation and we dont have much more to go on than we did when it closed. Recent announcements about the hotels big unveiling this October have got us curious, and clues about what the hotel may actually look like come from, none other than, Hollywood.]]>

DesignMinder2014-08-04T16:05:11-05:00Ritz-Carlton Berlin Launches a Most Unusual Bar Concept, But Will People Like It? http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2014/6/3/8442/29750
<![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/113893/Fragrances_entranceII.jpg" class="top"><p> The dream of every prestigious hotel is to create a unique environment, one that will bring locals in off the street as much as it will entice its guests to stay put. During a recent trip to Germany, we stumbled upon a brand-new bar (no pun intended) at the <a href="http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/Berlin/Default.htm"><strong>Ritz Carlton Berlin</strong></a> that might just be the most out of the box concept we've seen at a hotel in a long, long time. <p> Called <strong>Fragrances</strong>, the bar's premise combines perfume with cocktail creation, encouraging patrons to use their sense of smell to pick their drink. The visual menu is set up right inside the entrance to the lounge-like bar, a lineup of perfume bottles displayedwakeandwander2014-06-05T12:34:37-05:00Search HotelChatterSearch HotelChatterstringhttp://www.hotelchatter.com/search/